I spent some time the other day messing about with the Hold The Mayo templates. Someone posted a question on the MuNu home site asking how to add color to blockquotes. Munuviana being the great community that it is, someone posted the answer.

So I thought I would give it a try. I haven't done much to change the look of the site since it first went up, and a little change now and then is a good thing. So I copied and pasted the necessary text into my CSS file and started playing with it.

blockquote{

margin:15px 30px 15px 30px;

padding:8px 10px 8px 10px;

border: 1px solid #E8E8E8;

color:#030303;

font-family:arial, tahoma;

background:#E8E8E8;

}

I think I saved and rebuilt the file about a dozen times before I got the margins and padding to where I liked them. I eliminated the borders right away. I knew I didn't want those. Then it was a matter of finding the right shade of blue as the background color.

I went to a few different web sites with color charts and codes and after many variations had just about decided that I just wasn't going to get a blue that I liked. Then I remembered that PhotoShop could give me the hex code for any color I could want. I went with a color that was roughly 10% of the blue in the banner.

I saved and rebuilt then scrolled down to the first post with a blockquote. It was perfect. It was exactly what I envisioned when I decided to put color behind quotes. I was quite pleased that I had been able to achieve exactly the look that I wanted and it looked great.

There was only one slight problem. I hated it.

I don't hate the idea of color behind blockquotes. It is done on a lot of sites and if I notice at all, it certainly doesn't bother me. I just really didn't like it on my site.

So I went back into the CSS file and deleted the whole block of code saved and rebuilt.

Maybe I'm just stuck. Maybe I just don't like change. But the bottom line is I like the way the site looks as it is. Default blockquotes and all.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 04:16 PM | No Comments | Add Comment